The United States, Mexico, and Canada are in the midst of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which came into force in 1994. Millions of jobs, massive cross-border production networks, and broader cooperation on fighting transnational crime are at...

In the final months of 2017, the most significant advance in Russia’s relationship with Latin America was arguably the inclusion of eight Latin American teams in the 32-team field for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Russia was almost absent from media coverage of the BRICS+...

Sunday’s mayoral elections once again confirmed the authoritarian system that rules Venezuela. Despite the deepest man-made humanitarian crisis in the region, and the highest rates of abstention in recent Venezuelan electoral history, the regime’s party claims to have...

For the past half century, powerful trends have been shaping Mexico’s population, its economy, and its relationship to the United States. Lower birth rates and freer markets have led to a sustained drop in Mexicans moving north to find work, developments that will reshape...

Suriname’s economy is heavily reliant on commodities, in particular oil, gold, and to a lesser extent, bauxite. When commodity prices are up, the country enjoys strong growth and boom-like conditions; when prices are down, Suriname suffers with economic contraction, fiscal...

The term “Guiana” or the “Guianas” is often used as a generic term for the three states on the northern coast of South America: Suriname, independent from the Netherlands since 1975; Guyana, independent from Great Britain since 1966; and French Guyane, an overseas...

If the Trump administration decides to junk the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the United States would be free to raise tariffs on Mexico and Canada 180 days after formal notification to Congress. In response, either or both countries could decide to retaliate....

On Sunday, Argentines gave President Macri and his Cambiemos (Let’s Change) alliance a resounding endorsement. They simultaneously signaled their rejection of the leading Peronists, leaving Argentina’s largest political movement bereft of leadership and in disarray....

Sunday’s gubernatorial elections reconfirmed that Venezuela’s democracy cannot be restored by constitutional means. The current regime is led by a corrupt cabal unwilling to give up its concentrated power, after causing an unprecedented humanitarian, economic, and...

Truth commissions have become common practice in countries that have experienced periods of violence and democratic transitions. They seek to deal with impunity, to break the cycles of violence and human rights violations, and to establish, objectively and impartially, what...